Gender in Japanese Popular Culture : Rethinking Masculinities and Femininities /

This open-access essay collection brings together a range of viewpoints on gender from a diverse group of international scholars, proposing different ways to think about gender, sexuality, and masculinities/femininities. By using case studies from Japanese popular culture, the authors contribute to...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Salenius, Sirpa (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:	Popular Culture. Gender identity in mass media. Ethnology-Asia. Culture. Media and Gender. Asian Culture. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Destabilizing Gender
2. From dansō to Genderless: Mediating Queer Styles and Androgynous Bodies in Japan
3. "I'll create my own precedents": Female Rakugo Performers on Tokyo's yose Stages
4. Not Quite There: Nike's Diversity and Inclusion Agenda and Japan's Readiness
5. Hybrid Masculinities?: Reflexive Accounts of Japanese Youth at University josō Contests
6. The Widening Road: Constructions of Gay Japanese Men on YouTube
7. Boys' Love, Transmedia Storytelling, and LGBT Awareness in Contemporary Japan
8. Creating the the Body Beautiful Cosplay: Cross-Dressing, Cosplay, and Hyper Femininity and Hyper Masculinity
9. Engagements with Gender, Sexuality and Authenticity in Cosplay.